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The Guided Therapeutics (GTx) program at the University Health Network is a network of
clinicians, scientists, and engineers focused on the development and translation of
image-guided technologies focused on minimally-invasive, adaptive therapies. Technologies
developed within the GTx program include a portable intra-operative cone-beam CT (in
collaboration with Siemens) that has been evaluated in clinical trials for head and neck
surgery. The intraoperative imaging has been in...

Coronary CT angiography is used to examine the coronary arteries in a non-invasive way when
a patient is suspected of having coronary artery disease. The test, however, requires
relatively high levels of radiation, which have been linked to DNA damage and cancer, and
the use of contrast material, which can affect kidney function. The SOMATOM Force, a new
third-generation CT scanner manufactured by Siemens, was recently installed at MUSC and
holds the potential to obtain quality...

We are evaluating a new computer software package to help us acquire and interpret heart CT
studies, which is the purpose of this research project. We plan to compare the acquiring and
analysis of heart artery calcium scores and CT angiograms (scans of the heart arteries) with
the new SYNGO Somaris/7 Cardiac software to our previous experience with the the existing
Siemens software and the TeraRecon software (current software used in the Cardiovascular
MR/CT lab). The main obje...

This Protocol is intended to facilitate development and testing of new techniques for
functional MRI by UC Davis Research Faculty, as well as to facilitate the evaluation of new
techniques provided by the system manufacturers (GE and Siemens).

This Protocol is intended to facilitate development and testing of new cardiovascular MRI
software capabilities by UC Davis Research Faculty, as well as to facilitate the evaluation
of new software capabilities provided by GE and Siemens.

The scope of the USE-BNP Trial is to investigate whether knowledge of BNP measurements, in
conjunction with clinical assessment, in the outpatient setting can guide the management of
therapy in patients with heart failure.

The purpose of this study is to compare the radiation exposure of a variety of chest CT
examinations performed on the current state of the art CT scanners (64 slice, dual source CT
scanner) with the radiation exposure for identical chest CT examinations performed on the
Siemens Flash CT scanner (high pitch dual source spiral technique).